Automobilistico

Automobiles need to survive some of the
harshest environments on earth.

Q-Lab is the world leader in weathering and corrosion test equipment and test services for the automotive industry. Cars and trucks are subject to the damaging forces of nature, including sunlight, heat, and moisture. The automotive industry represents a unique and complex mix of materials, which must meet stringent outdoor durability requirements in a highly cost conscious, rapidly changing market.

Will your automotive exterior and products last outdoors? Will your automotive interior products last in the unique conditions they will face? For how long? Do your new raw material suppliers have the same quality as your previous ones? Has something changed in your process that might affect the long term durability of your products? Don't guess when you can test.

Q-Lab serves automotive OEMs and all tiers of the supply chain, including the following segments:

Coatings, including clear-coat base-coat systems

Interior textiles and leathers

Exterior trims and plastics

Interior trims and plastics

Wheels and suspensions

Automotive lighting

Displays

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Coatings and plastics are regularly tested in the QUV accelerated weathering tester for quality control and R&D. It's realistic simulation of the short-wave UV portion of sunlight and realistic yet aggressive moisture functions have made it the world's most widely used weathering tester. For OEM acceptance, the Q-SUN xenon test chamber is the tester of choice because of its accurate simulation of full spectrum sunlight, relative humidity control, and versatile, easy-to-use flat specimen tray.

While accelerated weathering chambers are a key weapon in the fight against the forces of sunlight, heat, and moisture, nothing beats the real thing: outdoor testing in one of Q-Lab's benchmark outdoor testing facilities. In fact, outdoor testing is so important that automotive OEMs require it for a variety of systems. Direct exposures, under glass exposures, black box, and AIM box tracking exposures are used to simulate and accelerate the most important stressors of materials and systems used in cars and trucks. If you want to combine the benefits of outdoor and accelerated testing, the Q-TRAC Natural Sunlight Concentrator can provide five times the annual solar energy of an exposure in South Florida.

While accelerated weathering, lightstability, and corrosion chambers are a key weapon in the fight against the forces of nature, nothing beats the real thing: outdoor testing in one of Q-Lab's benchmark outdoor testing facilities. If you want to combine the benefits of outdoor and accelerated testing, the Q-TRAC natural sunlight concentrator can provide five times the annual solar energy of an exposure in South Florida.

Automotive systems must also withstand the forces of corrosion, and the Q-FOG cyclic corrosion chamber is the perfect tool for recreating realistic outdoor corrosion conditions in the laboratory.

Many companies working in the automotive industry know Q-Lab as the manufacturer of Q-PANEL standard test substrates. Since 1956, the Q-PANEL name has stood for consistent, high quality substrates for testing coatings, sealants, and adhesives.